James Dean Tombstone
IllustrationStory★★★★People Magazine recently reported that the four-hundred-pound tombstone of the late movie star James Dean was stolen for the third time in the last fifteen years. It didn’t take police long to locate the grave marker. A deputy sheriff drove over the granite marker in the middle of a county highway sixty miles away. Fairmount, Indiana, Police Chief Jim Grindle said, “You can’t show it off, you can’t brag about it, and you can’t sell it. It’s one of those secrets that is hard to keep.”
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The point
A stolen tombstone cannot be displayed, bragged about, or sold because it lacks value; people who steal public monuments keep secrets that are hard to keep.
Scripture
Proverbs 10:9
Audience
Adults
Tone
Humorous · Cautionary
To tell aloud
under a minute · 86 words